The United States Is Turning 250 Years Old — For History Teachers, It’s a Complicated Lesson

The post The United States Is Turning 250 Years Old — For History Teachers, It’s a Complicated Lesson appeared first on Katie ...

Trump-backed ‘Freedom Trucks’ tell a sanitized story of the country’s founding

At a time of fierce debate over how to teach American history, the mobile exhibits weigh in squarely on one side of the ...

‘Awesome.’ ‘Sad.’ ‘Let’s keep democracy going.’ Americans weigh in on state of a 250-year-old nation

Across the United States, many Americans are celebrating their country’s 250th birthday by closing their ears to all the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Jill Lepore Discusses New Book ‘We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution’ and the Future of American Democracy

On the evening of Oct. 6, First Parish Church was packed for Jill Lepore’s talk on her newly published book, “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” A Harvard professor of History and Law ...

I Was the President: Bryan Cranston, Kiefer Sutherland, and 5 Other Stars Tell VF About Playing POTUS

As America turns 250, actors who’ve played presidents—real and fictional, past and future, across stage and screen—share ...

Opinion: Don’t whitewash American history on the Fourth of July

Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech highlighted the hypocrisy of celebrating independence while slavery still ...

The Trump administration fought to change a national park slavery exhibit. Here’s why Philadelphia vows to keep fighting back

Just days away from America’s 250th birthday — and steps away from where the country itself was born — visitors to the City ...
Opinion

Where do Indigenous people fit in the 250th celebration of the U.S.?

Much of the immigration enforcement happening in the American Southwest is against people who have always called that place home. My home.